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Developing a comorbidity score in cancer patients using healthcare utilization databases during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An experience from Italy

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A strong relationship has been observed between comorbidities and the risk of severe/fatal COVID‐19 manifestations, but no score is available to evaluate their association in cancer patients. To make up… Click to show full abstract

A strong relationship has been observed between comorbidities and the risk of severe/fatal COVID‐19 manifestations, but no score is available to evaluate their association in cancer patients. To make up for this lacuna, we aimed to develop a comorbidity score for cancer patients, based on the Lombardy Region healthcare databases.

Keywords: score cancer; cancer patients; cancer; comorbidity score

Journal Title: Cancer Medicine
Year Published: 2022

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